What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Archives publishing fee schedules for copies, licensing and off-site storage; commercial records-storage archives (Iron Mountain style… | per service item tariff, updated annually | public |
| inventory & supply chain | National, regional, municipal, university and corporate archives; archival management system vendors (AtoM, Preservica, Ex Libris Rosetta) | per fonds/series/item catalogue record; shelf-metre holdings totals per… | public |
| geospatial/movement | National archive directories and open data portals listing repository locations; provenance/place indexes in catalogue metadata | per repository address/coordinate; per place-name authority record | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National archive authorities and accreditation bodies (e.g. The National Archives UK Archive Service Accreditation and Discovery archive… | per archive institution, with accreditation status and dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National archive sector surveys and professional bodies (ICA, ARA, SAA salary surveys); national statistical offices for NACE 91.12 | annual headcount/FTE per institution; sector-level wage and occupation… | public |
| energy consumption | Facilities teams of archive buildings; public-sector energy/display certificate registers (EPC/DEC for public buildings) | per building monthly/annual kWh; DEC rating per site | public |
| financial filings | Government departments funding national archives (budget votes, annual reports); charity regulators for trust-run archives; grant funders… | annual per institution; per grant award | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Standards and audit bodies (ISO 16363/CoreTrustSeal digital repository certification, PAS 197/BS 4971 assessments); national archive… | per repository audit or certification cycle | public |
| sensor/IoT | Archive repositories' building management and preservation teams; environmental monitoring vendors (Hanwell, Meaco, Tinytag deployments) | temperature/relative humidity/light readings per strongroom per 15-60 min… | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Archive disaster/preservation records; national heritage-at-risk reporting; UNESCO/Blue Shield damage reports; insurers of collections | per incident (flood, fire, mould outbreak, theft) per repository | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Archive reading room services; national archives statistics units (annual archive surveys) | per reader visit / per document request; monthly and annual aggregates per… | partnership |
| production output | Digitisation units of national archives, libraries with archive functions, outsourced scanning contractors | images/pages scanned per day per scanner or per project; metadata records… | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Conservation departments of national and institutional archives; digital preservation repositories (fixity/format-risk reports) | per item or per collection condition survey; per file integrity check event | partnership |
| customer demographics | Archive reader registration systems; audience research units of national archives | per registered reader (residence, research purpose, first-visit status)… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Archive web teams; online catalogue and digital-archive platforms; aggregators (Europeana, Archives Portal Europe) reporting usage | per-page/per-record web analytics daily; API request logs; social and… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Archive reprographic and research services; commercial genealogy partners (Ancestry, Findmypast) licensing digitised archives | per order/copy request; per subscription or licence revenue line | exclusive |
| logistics & freight movement | Archives operating off-site stores and shuttle services; commercial records-management carriers moving accessions and retrievals | per transfer/accession consignment; per retrieval request cycle time | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.